Autonomous system
AS44244 IRANCELL-AS
Mobile RIPE
Summary
Irancell (MTN Irancell)
isp mobile eyeball
MTN Irancell is one of Iran's largest mobile operators, a joint venture involving the MTN Group.
What it's used for
- Mobile data for a very large Iranian subscriber base, plus fixed-wireless (TD-LTE) home internet.
Notable
- A large "eyeball" network: addresses here are typically mobile devices or fixed-wireless homes, often behind carrier-grade NAT, so geo is coarse.
- Iran's second mobile operator, competing with the incumbent MCI (Hamrah-e Aval) and Rightel.
Interesting
- Irancell was a major MTN emerging-market venture; operating in Iran has kept it entangled with sanctions and currency-repatriation complications over the years.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS49666 | Telecommunication Infrastructure Company | 25,281 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 30 prefixes · 1.23M addresses IPv6 8 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IR | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 38 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS44244- Registry name
- IranCell-AS
- Registrant
- IRANCELL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mtnirancell.ir
- Registered
- 2007-12-11
- Last changed
- 2023-10-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 453 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 37 authorising AS44244
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 99.3% registered · 450 of 453 announcements
- Route objects
- 927 naming AS44244
Reputation
Classification and threat
Mobile Cellular carrier. Addresses are shared by many handsets via CGNAT.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere